Tramway



(No ModeL) E.. mu RW Pm Mm Tm No. 462,063. Patented Oct. 27, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. PRICE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

TRAMWAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,063, dated October 27, 1891. Application filed December 10,1890. serial No. 374.155. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known`"that I, JAMES M. PRICE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Penn- Sylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railways or Tramways, which `improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in street railways or tramways; and it consists, first, of an intervening channel-har for supporting a rail on a Stringer.

It further consists of a rail having depend-V cation thereof. Fig. 3 represents a side view of a portion of the railway, showing a connection for the jointsthereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a street-rail having the depending flanges B, which may slightly overhang the channel-bar C, or may -have their inner walls vertical, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, so as to permit 'a wider channel-bar to be employed. The

channel-bar C is provided with depending flanges adapted to embrace the sides of a sleeper or longitudinal support D. The latter may be of converging form orsquared sides and beveled top. The channel-bar C is secured in place on the head of the sleeperD by means of spikes, nails, or straps E, which are driven or passed through holes or openings in the flanges of the bar and into the stringer, and the rail A is secured to the channelbar Cby other spikes, nails, or straps G, which are passed through openingsHin the iianges of the rail and openingJ of the bar, and then into the sleeper D or into grooves formed on the upper side of the same. By these means the rail and bar are held securely in place on the sleeper and prevented from any vertical movement thereon. The sleepersD are kept in proper position or in gage by means of a tie-rod K and the nuts L on the screw-threaded ends thereof. The ends of each of the anges of the adjacent rails are provided with saw cuts forming communicating recesses, as M, adapted to receive the straps N, each of which ispassed through two of the communicating recesses and into an opening in the channel-bar, and then into the sleeper D, whereby the knocking of the ends of the rails is prevented. The channel-bars and rails are placed so as to break joints, or, in other words, the ends of the two do not coincide, whereby a stronger connection of the said rails and bars with the sleeper is made.

In Fig. 2 is shown a modication of the rail, the same having a hollow or recessed under portion, thereby saving metal and also providing a longitudinal chamber, which is adapted for the suitable placing therein of electric or other wires. By providing the upper face of the sleeper with grooves for the reception of the spikes, which are passed Athrough the openings H andJ of the rail and channel-bar, respectively, all danger of splitting of the sleeper by driving the spike therein is avoided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A street or tramway rail having depending flanges at its sides with openings therein, a channel-bar with depending lianges at its sides having openings therein, a support for the channel-bar, and fastening means, substantially as described, passing through the openings in saidtlanges of said rail and channel-bar into said support, said parts being combined substantially as described.

2. A street or tramway rail having depending flanges with openings therein,a channel# bar with side flanges having two series of openings therein, anda support for said channel-bar, said rail being seated on said channel-bar and one of said series of openings in the Han ges of the channel-bar coinciding with the openings in the anges of the rail, said parts being combined substantially as described. i

' 3. A street or tramway rail having depending flanges with openings therein, a channelbar with depending anges with ltwo rows of openings therein, and a Wooden sleeper, said parts being combined substantially as described. v f

4. A street or tramway rail having depending,r flanges, a channel-bar With depending flanges, and a wooden sleeper with converging sides adapted to fit in said channel-bar, said rail being adapted to rest on said channel-bar, said parts being combined substanltially as described. v l

5. The combination of'two street ortram- Way rails, each having depending anges with saw cuts or recesses in their ends, said recesses communicating, a strap fitting in said recesses, and a stationary support for said rails, substantially as described.

6. The combination of two street-rails, each having depending ianges `with saw cuts or zo recesses in their ends, a channel-bar with an with the openings in the rail-flanges, and a sleeper or support for the channel-bar, having,r grooves in its upper face for receiving,r the spikes or straps inserted in said openings in the rail and channel-bar, said parts being' combined substantially as described.

. JAMESM. PRICE. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsHEnu, A. P. JENNINGS. 

